I'm sure you are right, there's a problem with line endings. If I insert an empty line immediately after a chosen word and then search for that word it works fine.
Anyway, neither flip -u Italiano.list (wich is supposed to convert line endings to unix specs) nor (expectedly) flip -m Italiano.list (wich on the contrary sets them to dos type) works.

I downloaded the file from http://http://www.yorku.ca/lbianchi/...rds/index.html (This wordlist is Copyright © 1993-2002 Luigi M Bianchi, and is made freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For further information concerning this license, please visit the GNU Project Web Server.).
If I can't think of anything better I'll end up inserting an empty line after each word of the list ç_ç

However, thanks for all the help, it was greatly appreciated


EDIT: fromdos Italiano.list worked perfectly! Now there are no more problems, it finds every word just as expected
1000 Thanks and sorry for having disturbed with such a ridiculous problem (it wasn't even the right forum to post that, after all )